RE. Re. Graphene
Low quality graphene, via contained detonation of acetylene in a resonant chamber.
Irony: this could have been invented earlier if someone had analyzed the "soot" produced during accidental detonation of said acetylene.
Still holding out home for MH being found in nature, in vanishingly small quantities.
For that matter room temperature superconductors might be found if we knew where to look, some intriguing studies suggest that the Ancients may have been aware of more than just lodestones.
What if... (insert off-the-wall hypothesis about a gigantic quenching event being responsible for Atlantis aka Zealandia being "sunk" by some freakish combination of a natural disaster, sea level rise and folks messing with their new-found geomagnetic power source)